This week’s fresh listings:

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Additions to www.HistoryInCoins.com for week commencing Tuesday 9th December 2025

WSC-9236: Robert III Scottish Medieval Hammered Silver HALF Penny. Light coinage, 1403-06, the debased (0.617) silver "pence" issue - the only issue under Robert III where pennies and halfpennies were struck. Neat bust, large narrow crown, [RO]OB[ERTVS REX SCOT]. Reverse legend indistinct through deposits, but presumed Edinburgh (S.R.5187 - £650 VF in the latest price guide) although could be the rarer Perth mint. The accompanying ticket states the grade to be fair, which is incorrect. Looking with a good lens at the definition and deposits on this coin, with professional conservation (I recommend experts such as Nigel Mills or Mark Maillard - there are others), this coin will be close to VF or even better. All the debased silver issues are rare (Coincraft states: "All three issues are very rare and crude in style and strike") but this second issue with a shorter neck is rarer still. The National Museum in Edinburgh holds a plethora of Robert III groats, fewer halfgroats, x6 pennies and zero halfpennies of any mint. The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford both hold similar quantities of groats, halfgroats and pennies. The Hunterian holds the excessively rare "without mint name" halfpenny (S.R.5188A) together with only x2 others, both Perth. The Ashmolean hold x1 Perth and x2 Edinburgh halfpennies. Institutional coins will have been professionally conserved, unlike the coin for sale here, but with the exception of a remarkable Perth halfpenny held by the Hunterian Museum, this coin looks to be better than those scant few in terms of its outstanding bust. In summary, a fairly ordinary, nondescript looking coin at first glance but, given its rarity and underlying grade once the coin has been conserved, an extremely rare and important Scottish medieval coin. £485

WTH-9237: Exceptional Edward VI (in the name of Henry VIII) Hammered Silver Portrait Penny. Henry VIII posthumous issue but actually struck under the reign of the boy king, Edward VI, 1547-51. London (Tower) mint, facing bust, S.R.2417. Edward was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of just nine years of age. He was the only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour. Sadly, Edward died in July of 1553 aged just 15 years old. It was a very strange decision to keep Henry's name and portrait on some of the currency once he'd died, and for x4 years, considering that from April 1547, just x2 months after Henry VIII died, Edward's First Period coinage, with both Edward's name and portrait, including pennies and even halfpennies, was issued into everyday currency. Better than the S.R. plate coin, which I think speaks for itself. £265

WMH-9238: Richard III Medieval Hammered Silver Groat. Initial mark Halved Sun & Rose 2 (June 1484 - August 1485), London mint, class or type 3, Spink 2158. Regnal name clear (in fact good legends throughout), initial marks both clear, clear pellet below the bust and very good grade indeed - extra in-the-hand image here as the main image does this coin no favours. Richard III was the last of the medieval monarchs, losing to Henry Tudor on Bosworth Field, or as is now the current thinking, on a field a few short miles from that famous location. He was an unsavoury character - Shakespeare was certainly no fan! - and as most of you will be aware through all the worldwide media coverage, Richard III's body was discovered in a Leicestershire car park in 2012. A very slight kink, really only evident on the reverse. A lovely, rare coin dating to the very end of the very short reign so effectively the last medieval issue to have been struck in England! £2,895

Provenance:

ex Tim Owen